Jim Gordon is a bounty hunter when Season 3 kicks off, and though he’ll presumably make his way back to GCPD before too long, his recklessness and take-all-prisoners bravado will undoubtedly cripple him in the future.
Of course, just because Gotham is bringing in another devious antagonist to bring on the Mad City doesn’t mean that the series completely abandoned the Heroes Will Fall angle.
Bruce Wayne is on the rise to finding his inner Batman, but that won’t be an easy road no matter how dedicated he is.
As Woodruff also told THR, that heroism theme still holds true for the season as a whole, while this first half is structured around the madness.